VW workers to vote on joining UAW union in Tennessee

A Volkswagen automobile assembly plant is seen on March 20, 2024 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Elijah Nouvelage | Getty Images DETROIT — Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will vote this week on whether to organize with the United Auto Workers in a key test of the union’s sway. A victory would give the UAW its first … Read more

Why Hawaii is becoming a leader in U.S. EV adoption

Customers admire a Tesla Model 3 electric vehicle at a Tesla store in Honolulu, Hawaii.  Alex Tai | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images U.S. consumers have been making the move to all-electric vehicles more slowly than many expected — but a growing leader in EV adoption is Hawaii. The tropical island state this … Read more

Amazon spends $2.7B on startup Anthropic in largest venture investment

Amazon is making its largest outside investment in its three-decade history as it looks to gain an edge in the artificial intelligence race.  The tech giant said it will spend another $2.75 billion backing Anthropic, a San Francisco-based startup that’s widely viewed as a frontrunner in generative artificial intelligence. Its foundation model and chatbot Claude … Read more

Jim Cramer’s top 10 things to watch in the stock market Monday

My top 10 things to watch Monday, March 25 1. U.S. stock futures were slightly lower Monday morning to kick off the final week of March. All three major benchmarks crossed new all-time high levels last week and are on track for their fifth consecutive month of gains. Looking ahead this week, Friday is the … Read more

Big week for tech IPOs like Reddit boosts Morgan Stanley after lull

The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Reddit, Inc. (NYSE: RDDT) to celebrate its initial public offering. To honor the occasion, Snoo, rings the Opening Bell®. NYSE Wall Street’s tech IPO bankers may finally have a reason to break out the champagne after an extended drought was broken up this week with the market debuts of … Read more

Redditors bank millions as a group on stock’s opening day

Reddit power users who participated in the company’s IPO made millions of dollars as a group in profits after the stock’s big jump in its first day on the market. While Redditors interviewed by CNBC ahead of the offering said they were skipping out on the IPO due to concerns about the business and the … Read more

(RDDT) starts trading on NYSE

Reddit shares jumped as much as 70% in their debut on Thursday in the first initial public offering for a major social media company since Pinterest hit the market in 2019. The 19-year-old website that hosts millions of online forums priced its IPO on Wednesday at $34 a share, the top of the expected range. … Read more

Reddit power users balk at chance to participate in IPO as debut nears

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Sarah Gilbert spends a lot of time on Reddit. For the past three years, she’s helped moderate the r/AskHistorians subreddit, which has 2 million members and was the subject of her Ph.D. dissertation. She’s been a lurker on the forum since 2012. But when the subject turns to … Read more

The top 10 things to watch in the stock market Friday

Our top 10 things to watch Friday, March 15 1. Stocks opened lower Friday, following a losing day on Wall Street. The S & P and Dow Jones are still pacing to end the week in the black, while the Nasdaq is on track to finish lower. Meanwhile, bitcoin dropped around $5,000 overnight to about $67,000 … Read more

EV euphoria is dead. Automakers trumpet consumer choice in U.S.

Andrew Merry | Moment | Getty Images DETROIT — The buzz around electric vehicles is wearing off. For years, the automotive industry has been in a state of EV euphoria. Automakers trotted out optimistic sales forecasts for electric models and announced ambitious targets for EV growth. Wall Street boosted valuations for legacy automakers and startup … Read more